andreas comments on Church: a language for probabilistic modeling - Less Wrong

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Comment author: andreas 23 October 2010 08:20:26PM 3 points [-]

Probabilistic inference in general is NP-hard, but it is not clear that (1) this property holds for the kinds of problems people are interested in and, even if it does, that (2) approximate probabilistic inference is hard for this class of problems. For example, if you believe this paper, probabilistic inference without extreme conditional probabilities is easy.